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The above poll, by ComRes for ITV News, was taken this afternoon after the news of Maria Miller’s resignation was announced and shows what voters thought of David Cameron’s handling of the expenses issue.
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"To fire someone at the first sign of trouble is a sign of weakness not leadership" Dave says on the day he sacks Fabricant....
Well they know now!
LOL
Incredible stuff. Dangerously close to omnishambles territory if this keeps going much longer.
I suppose the polling for Cameron would still have been a resounding shrug of the shoulders if he himself had covered Miller in petrol on College Green and immolated her live on the Six O'Clock news...
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Wow, it's like the a Keystone Kops version of the Night of the Long Knives in Toryland today. @Mike_Fabricant gone. Will he join UKIP?
Miller's problem was that she did not realise this.
Fiddling expenses for personal gain? Cameron stands by you, and says he'll have you back
Criticise a much criticised project/an MP the public don't like? Sacked.
At the risk of siding with unlikely bedfellows Pork and Pouter, PB really seems to be the only place Miller=Good Guy, Fabricant=Bad Guy
Seems like defending Cameron at all costs out of stubbornness
Daniel White @danwhitepr 7m
David Cameron sacks Mike Fabricant for having an opinion on HS2 & refuses to sack Maria Miller for cheating the taxpayer. Sums him up.
MARY HALL @PsychVictim 7m
Vice-chair of Conservative Party Michael Fabricant sacked for criticising Maria Miller on Twitter http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/vicechair-of-conservative-party-michael-fabricant-sacked-for-criticising-maria-miller-on-twitter-9249392.html …
Dominic McDonough @torydom 8m
Shocked to hear about @Mike_Fabricant firing. He is EXACTLY what the Conservative party needs. An opinionated individual, not a robot.
Lichfield Live @LichfieldLive 9m
Lichfield MP @mike_fabricant insists he's still loyal to David Cameron despite sacking over #HS2 comments:
Paul Waugh @paulwaugh 9m
@Mike_Fabricant I take a rare few minutes off the Twitter thingy to attend a leaving do and next thing I know you've got one of your own!
Karl Frampton @Karl_Frampton 9m
Michael Fabricant sacked for tweeting 'about time' re #MariaMiller even though Nasty Mcveigh was knife twisting even before that.
Lescromps @Lescromps 9m
So they've sacked @Mike_Fabricant over dissenting view on HS2 think Cameron and co might live regret that #kneejerk #hs2 #knivesout
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Old Holborn @OHwinsAgain 10m
Fabricant had it coming. FAR too individual to survive the Borg.
Emily Davies @EmilyDTV 10m
What... the... hell? MT @bbcmtd: Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant sacked following criticism of the HS2 rail scheme & Maria Miller
Giles Goodall @GoodallGiles 10m
Oh dear, Tories' fratricidal instincts never seem to dim, do they? http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/vicechair-of-conservative-party-michael-fabricant-sacked-for-criticising-maria-miller-on-twitter-9249392.html …
Biff Bean @BiffBean 11m
@Mike_Fabricant ...gone up in my books.
ARTIST TAXI DRIVER @chunkymark 11m
Can I interview you in my taxi now?@Mike_Fabricant
Ed Wilson @eddwilson 12m
@JosephineFormby Sacking senior people is untidy. Fabricant was a joke bag-carrier.
MrCEssex @MrCEssex1 12m
Amazing. Tories support Miller yet sack Fabricant. What utter wankers.
GoodnightVienna @CallingEngland 12m
@GoldenOldieC @Mike_Fabricant Wouldn't be surprised; seems to be the way of contemporary politics. Highlighted by the sacking of MikeFab
Yosemite Sam 1979 @back_samuel 13m
@Mike_Fabricant... First time I saw him I thought he was an Ali G type p*sstake.. #justsaying
Ian Davis @iandavis28 13m
@gemini2359 Is a Fabricant someone who fabricates?
raymond turton @deffmick 13m
#skynews Michael fabricant. Sacked as Tory vice chairman ! Pmsl. Torys in meltdown.
Leon Spence @CllrLeonSpence 13m
Don't usually agree with @Mike_Fabricant, but politics needs more straight talking, not the toadying that's becoming the norm.
The public don;t give a t8ss about Maria no-mark and Michael no-mates. They care about jobs, immigration, the economy, taxes, the deficit, welfare, health and education.
And on many of those issues David Cameron has done a reasonable job, despite the mother of all beastings from one doom monger or another, on one side or another, on one topic or another, for the last four years.
I'm just peed off that cabinet ministers who get binned can claim 18 grand (Avery tells me that's "only" two months pay for a cabinet minister).
The likes of Huhne, Laws and gawd knows how many New Labour failed ministers were all eligible to claim it.
Millionaire failed ministers, collecting not far off my take home pay, even the ones who resign in disgrace, but still keeping their MP job, and all that entails.
That just doesn't sit well.
Do you really think hard working families have time to sit around reading what some lobby fodder with an inflated ego has to say about two politicians they have never heard of?
As a Vice-Chair of the party the PM was entitled to expect from Fabricant an element of loyalty to the wider party and himself. Instead Fabricant was self indulgent and for the sake of a moments self anggrandizement made himself eminently expendable.
Or as they say many a tweet makes a twat.
a) Can see beyond blind party preference
b) Don''t scream about Cameron when he has the temerity to breathe
c) Actually read the report.
And I'm not saying Fabricant's a bad guy. It's just that as vice-chair, he's in a position where such outbursts can cause problems. And he's had several.
A better comparison would be Fabricant and Mitchell. Both had important positions in the party, and both had problems. In Mitchell's case the assault was coming from outside the party, and Cameron tried to protect him against unjustified accusations - and in hindsight he was right to do so. In the case of Fabricant, it's internal and wholly caused by Fabricant's own actions.
Fabricant's reaction will be very telling.
Of course in the end it's the public's fault because that doesn't sound desperate at all.
Where you pulling "Hard working families" from? What a strange thing to say
The ukipgraph is two-faced when it comes to supporting the Tories. Private Eye reports that the owner(s) of the DT have financially supported Nigel Farage.
There is also no question in my mind that the paper wanted to damage Miller because of her association with press regulation. They have been vehement in their opposition.
What the hell is Cameron playing at? He is just throwing his toys out the pram because he lost?
Total number of votes polled in 2010 by the Tories in Glasgow: 17,432
Total number of votes polled in 2010 by Michael Fabricant: 28,048
What a petty, spineless, weak little bully Cameron is. He is hollowing out the Tory party for his own vanity.
A swift look up at that poll tells you that they are VERY from from representational.
As does this.
Mark Wallace @wallaceme 13h
Last night we revealed @ConHome that 82% of Tory Party members wanted Miller to go http://bit.ly/1sxtFPh
They didn't get the message last night, they didn't get it today and they'll keep right on going because they simply seem incapable of getting it even now.
And twitter is not a mirror of public opinion. It's a mirror of the opinion of people with twitter accounts. And we all know the sort of self-indulgent to**ers they are...
*joins SeanT in ducking for cover*
*chortle*
Is he popular?
If so how will backbenchers react?
Why sack him *now* - good timing or (seems to me but hey..) bad?
I'm a techie, but I really don't understand Twitter. I should really dip my toe in, but when I sneak a peek the signal to noise ratio is exceptionally low.
It's a case now of "vote politician, get politician".
Now there is an organisation that knows its taxpayers!
He was chairman of Brighton Pavilion Tory association at one point, his home town.
When you sign up, you can decide who you want to follow (and un-follow). It is a different experience from dipping in.
Harpreet Khara @HarpreetKhara 54m
@LOS_Fisher @tnewtondunn colourful and popular MP. Seems OTT if true @Mike_Fabricant —how about a @ConHome poll?
Might I ask of the collective wisdom of the sundry Sunday hackers hereabouts if perchance there is a tasty morsel of collective grey matter on the likely recipient of that male garment of the blazered green variety.
In short - a tip for the US Masters ?
Mr. Llama, expenses aren't the problem, income is.
Anyway, I'm hoping some people will buy Malevolence and enjoy Saxon & Khan enough to give my other books a try:
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Two other short stories waiting to be seen (sci-fi and steampunk[ish], neither of which are my usual fare). Hopefully one or both will get the nod.
On the plus side, my F1 race/qualifying bets are going strangely well. It's most unsettling.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/former-whip-michael-fabricant-lead-6928963
Fabricant seems to want to rush into the Zulu spears. Ho hum.
Why don't any of the bars on the charts add up to 100%?
How much higher would think is acceptable?
It was such a moment that finally got me onto FB.
It also seems to bring out the worst in people.
Watched firemen "rescue" a cat from a particularly high tree a few years ago. Forget the ladders, a firehose at just enough pressure to reach the cat and a soggy moggy decided to come down on its own. Did it go up to the firemen to thank them? Nope, once it reached touch down on earth it was off at full speed.
And after dinner and my talk to Holborn & St Pancras Conservatives, I climbed Primrose Hill. 1st time. What a view! pic.twitter.com/OcA6VB5tjD"
twitter.com/Mike_Fabricant/status/453660258989518848
Feel free to disagree, its not a big deal
Could be worse. The Coalition could've continued Labour's work and introduced ID cards whilst at the same time shafting the economy.
Brydon @Brydon_N 29m
Cameron backs Miller then sacks Fabricant for stating the f**king obvious .. My loyalty and support now strained #Tory #DavidCameron
http://order-order.com/2014/04/09/ed-westland-miliband-misses-open-goal/
Why should they be paid "a lot more"? Seriously? Just because it's a job that *sounds* brave?
Ludicrous. If they can recruit enough firemen to do the job at £18k a year - presumably attracted by the macho image, the occasional excitement, the endless women in love with the uniform, the ability to post on pb during the 90% of the day when there's nothing to do (and good luck to firemen who sign on for that, I hope they all get laid) - then £18k is the right salary.
Or maybe we should just give them £90k cause it sounds nic
You're right, it's not like Backdraft or Chicago Fire every minute of the day, any firey who says it is is a Walt, but it has it's moments. There's no sitting around drinking tea, no snooker tables, no volleyball. It's training, equipment tests, fire safety, visits, water plans, more training.
I've never posted from work, as far as i can remember, we have a restrictive mobile phone policy. I can't fault your logic, on the ladies, I've always punched above my weigh, no complaints!
I'm not asking for more money, I manage on 28 grand a year (19 takehome). I wouldn't mind a bit more, obviously. If they could have just left my pension alone, though....
On that account, my job must have less perks that a McD's burger flipper. No-one ever got pulled by saying: "Hey doll, I was just playing with my new handheld spectrum analyser!"
Your job has some of the best perks. Git.
I think you're trying too hard
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I'm guessing a couple of hundred more members leave and join UKIP.
1. Matt Kuchar
2. Jason Day
3. Dustin Johnson
And in the unlikely event that he starts playing well, Ernie Els. I would love to see Ernie in a Green Jacket.
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All too true but sadly likely to upset those who adore Blair like monica.
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